Pokemon Go

[i_amtrunks]

So Pokemon go has been released! The wife and I took the Bub for a good hour long walk around the neighbourhood.

Already caught a staryu and eevee as well as the early game mons. Easy to play but what a battery hog! Lost 70% of my battery in that hour from just having the app running in my pocket!

[Raider]

So Pokemon go has been released! The wife and I took the Bub for a good hour long walk around the neighbourhood.

Already caught a staryu and eevee as well as the early game mons. Easy to play but what a battery hog! Lost 70% of my battery in that hour from just having the app running in my pocket!

Damn I didn't even notice the battery drain until I read this post and then looked at my phone. 1 hour and down 60% on my Samsung Note 4... This is not something you will be able to spend the whole day on without a battery charger close by.

The pokemon capture is novel but I am more looking forward to trainer battles. No idea how that works yet but that is the fun part.

I chose Charmander first and have Eevee, rattata, caterpie, weedle, pidgey, venonat and poliwag already.

[Raider]

Just noticed in settings there is a battery saver option. Let's see if that helps.

[i_amtrunks]

Just noticed in settings there is a battery saver option. Let's see if that helps.

Not really...

Mine is now having sign in issues as everyone gets home and downloads it!

[Raider]

Is it just me or is there not much to do other than walk around and throw pokeballs? I was hoping i could battle friends but I think that only works at a gym?

[Firestorm]

I've been in bed sick all day
And I wake up to find that all my friends have started playing Pokemon go.
I've got some catching up to do.
So far I have Charmander, Catterpie, Pidgey and Gastly
Depending on how I feel I may be going for a walk tomorrow

[Raider]

I just spent the last hour walking around Cronulla in my lunch break. Picked up a lot of Pidegys, rattatas and even a few eevees. Found an Oddish on my keyboard and a rattata on the toaster when I went to make lunch :p

http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr100/Raiderxxii/Pokemon/Screenshot_2016-07-07-13-41-00_zpsynaugsi1.png (http://s473.photobucket.com/user/Raiderxxii/media/Pokemon/Screenshot_2016-07-07-13-41-00_zpsynaugsi1.png.html)http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr100/Raiderxxii/Pokemon/Screenshot_2016-07-07-13-30-15_zpsg5rg31rl.png (http://s473.photobucket.com/user/Raiderxxii/media/Pokemon/Screenshot_2016-07-07-13-30-15_zpsg5rg31rl.png.html)

[BruiseLee]

^ Quite a drain on the battery there. You're down 8% in 10 minutes...

It does look fun. Will probably try this soon.

[Raider]

^ Quite a drain on the battery there. You're down 8% in 10 minutes...

It does look fun. Will probably try this soon.

That's a good point. I didn't even realise that. Yeah it is not a game I would suggest playing if you are going to be out all day without a charger.

[GoktimusPrime]

Is anyone else able to get Pokémon Go in Japanese (i.e. with original Japanese names instead of the dub names)? I tried to download the Japanese version, but I got geoblocked! :eek:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/pokemongo_geoblock_zpsasgaamuw.jpg
Also, apparently the Japanese version is currently just the Beta. :/ Hopefully the full version will be out when I'm in Japan in late Sept/early Oct and I can just download the full Japanese version from inside Japan. :o

[Zippo]

I've been playing this all weekend. Sadly not much assortment of characters around my local area and the same person has all but one gyms covered with huge numbered characters.

Hopefully walking around at work proves to be more beneficial

[tron07]

Anyone here playing the new Pokemon Go game?

[ITZTRU]

Lol yeah I am :D

[i_amtrunks]

Seems that the more popular an area is, Ye better Pokemon you get. We drove up from the South Coast back to Sydney and stopped in at the Kiama blowhole. Very popular, managed to get some far more powerful Pokemon from spots where people had lures set up.

Had no internet for half a week so now I feel so far behind, the two local gyms have 400CP Pokemon guarding them and I don't know if I'll ever be able to catch up!

[CBratron]

Currently into Avengers Alliance 2. Don't have time for both. Sorry.

[Firestorm]

I've been playing it a bit
But since I'm not able to go outside right now due to a bad cold I haven't been able to do or catch much yet
I'll No doubt be too far behind once I can start playing for real, but that won't stop me from trying to catch 'em all and take on the gyms
Although looking at the map, my town is a bit of a barren wasteland in terms of gyms and poke stops So I may need to try travelling around a bit

[tron07]

I was supprised that there are so many people playing on the street. Huge groups around the pokestop with lures active. Some were in a group, some with their partner and solo people like me playing to show my kids or toddlers.

So far, I had manage to plonk 1 pokemon in the gym, but mistake of putting a weak one in as I am not sure how it works. Its stuck there while I got more powerful ones available which should had gone in the Gym.

The big question = power up first or evolve first?
I had evolve first, but I think powering up first seems to be better, not too sure, some say evolve first then power up. Out of stardust at the moment.

[tron07]

RotomGuy from Reddit made a chart of pokemons but I dont think its correct. I got lots of Pinsirs and is not rare for me.

https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c6ed8b3fe66367d6747fc8cac2fbb8ea?convert_to_webp=t rue


https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4rwhma/i_made_a_rarity_chart_based_on_my_findings/


What is your most powerful pokemon?

I power up Pinsir to CP503 but their attack is weak. Mistake cause didnt know it earlier.

[Raider]

Seems that the more popular an area is, Ye better Pokemon you get. We drove up from the South Coast back to Sydney and stopped in at the Kiama blowhole. Very popular, managed to get some far more powerful Pokemon from spots where people had lures set up.

Had no internet for half a week so now I feel so far behind, the two local gyms have 400CP Pokemon guarding them and I don't know if I'll ever be able to catch up!

Only 400? My local Gyms are all 800-1200... I can't get anywhere near them...

[griffin]

(moved posts together from two topics into one... it may be merged back into the main pokemon topic when interest dies off)

[tron07]

Only 400? My local Gyms are all 800-1200... I can't get anywhere near them...

I have few over CP500 and few at 400 now. Got few duodo with CP200 and can I can evolve them anytime but want to keep and see if I should max them more or not as I alerady got 2 dodrio CP340

Almost lev 11

Got to catch them all.

[i_amtrunks]

Turns out I'm impatient, if I wait until the next few Pokemon show up, the actual leader is a 1200CP Dragonair.

So envious of people who have stable connections, went for an hours walk and I only got 100m added to my eggs, the wife had 4km. She only caught rattata and oddish as it is our local area, seems the farther away from home, the better the Pokemon are.

[GoktimusPrime]

Thieves (in the US) using Pokémon Go to lure and rob players at gunpoint (https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/32027304/thieves-using-pokemon-go-to-lure-and-rob-players-at-gunpoint/#page1) :eek:

Also, check out the way that the lady in the video horrifically mispronounces "Pokémon," she says "Poh-keh-mon" instead of "Pock-eh-mon." Looks like she's unaware that "Pokémon" is short for "Pocket Monsters," and you pronounce "pocket" as "pock-eht," not "poke-it." :rolleyes: Seriously, who says things like, "I put my phone in my back "poke-it," or "Empty your poke-its." Pocket! The English spelling of Pokémon even deliberately places an accent mark over the "e" to tell people that the stress should fall on the second syllable, not the first. We don't pronounce words like café as "kaffer," or touché as "two-sher" etc. I personally would've Romanised it as "Pockemon," because everyone pronounces "Pocky" fairly correctly (you don't read it as "Pokey"), but alas, the official spelling is Pokémon.

[laproblematique]

Thieves (in the US) using Pokémon Go to lure and rob players at gunpoint (https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/32027304/thieves-using-pokemon-go-to-lure-and-rob-players-at-gunpoint/#page1) :eek:

Also, check out the way that the lady in the video horrifically mispronounces "Pokémon," she says "Poh-keh-mon" instead of "Pock-eh-mon."
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/avatars/th_facepalm_primeratchet.jpg
Looks like she's unaware that "Pokémon" is short for "Pocket Monsters," and you pronounce "pocket" as "pock-eht," not "poke-it." :rolleyes: Seriously, who says things like, "I put my phone in my back "poke-it," or "Empty your poke-its." Pocket! The English spelling of Pokémon even deliberately places an accent mark over the "e" to tell people that the stress should fall on the second syllable, not the first. We don't pronounce words like café as "kaffer," or touché as "two-sher" etc. I personally would've Romanised it as "Pockemon," because everyone pronounces "Pocky" fairly correctly (you don't read it as "Pokey"), but alas, the official spelling is Pokémon.

I think you're in the vast minority of westerners if you've been pronouncing it pockemon all this time for the past 20 years. Never heard anybody say that, not sure if you're even serious.

[TAAUBlaster]

Thieves (in the US) using Pokémon Go to lure and rob players at gunpoint (https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/32027304/thieves-using-pokemon-go-to-lure-and-rob-players-at-gunpoint/#page1) :eek:

Also, check out the way that the lady in the video horrifically mispronounces "Pokémon," she says "Poh-keh-mon" instead of "Pock-eh-mon."
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/avatars/th_facepalm_primeratchet.jpg
Looks like she's unaware that "Pokémon" is short for "Pocket Monsters," and you pronounce "pocket" as "pock-eht," not "poke-it." :rolleyes: Seriously, who says things like, "I put my phone in my back "poke-it," or "Empty your poke-its." Pocket! The English spelling of Pokémon even deliberately places an accent mark over the "e" to tell people that the stress should fall on the second syllable, not the first. We don't pronounce words like café as "kaffer," or touché as "two-sher" etc. I personally would've Romanised it as "Pockemon," because everyone pronounces "Pocky" fairly correctly (you don't read it as "Pokey"), but alas, the official spelling is Pokémon.

The anime's English dub (and other media) has always pronounced it "Poh-keh-mon." So it's no surpirse that everyone (or vast majority) pronounces it that way.

[EDIT] Ninja'd by griffin and laproblematique :o

[tron07]

lets play game, how you or people pronounce it doesn't really matters.

While walking home yesterday I saw a lure active at a nearby park and decided to walk there to check it out. It was quite dark and I was quite worry of getting robbed, saw a group of people there, few cars pull up, few cars drove away... catch a few pokemon and quickly walk off. Dont want to get robbed or bashed as I am alone. Wouldnt have even consider walking near the park in the dark previously.
:lol

[laproblematique]

lets play game, how you or people pronounce it doesn't really matters.

Would if I could! Impossible to log in all morning. RIP servers. :(

[i_amtrunks]

Nearly saw a benefit of POkemon Go yesterday, a rat-tailed teenager stopped dead in the middle of the road to catch a weedle and nearly got run over.

It would've benefited the gene pool immensely! :p

[UltimateGalvatron]

Poke'mon isn't really my thing, and I think if not used correctly this game can do a lot of harm. I'm not playing, and besides I generally only play one mobile game at a time, and at the moment its Marvel's Contest of Champions.

[UltimateGalvatron]

I'll see your Ratchet, and raise you a king of the jungle... :p

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/fp1.jpg

:D

[tron07]

Would if I could! Impossible to log in all morning. RIP servers. :(

it keep freezing, seeing a lot of people killing and restarting the app in lunch time... me included. Break CP700 today

Lost a pikachu today, even berries and great ball cant hold him and only 1 catch and its gone.

[i_amtrunks]

Lost a pikachu today, even berries and great ball cant hold him and only 1 catch and its gone.

Had the same thing with a 227 Scyther and a 204 Staryu. Annoying but part of the "pokefun"! :p

Hopefully these server issues with get resolved or turn off enough people that those of us who are willing to slog it out can get better access.

Dropped into my school to do some programming for next term and sadly it is a dead zone, which makes sense, or students would be catching mons all day. However the streets and parks around it are doduo filled!

[Firestorm]

Today's new Pokemon catches were Meowth, Mankey, Exeggcute, Geodude, Abra, Pikachu, Golbat and Raticate
I also caught several more Pidgey, Pidgeotto, Rattata and another Koffing
As well as hatched my first egg. magikarp...
Since I'm pretty much over my cold now I think tomorrow I'll be going for a nice long walk. And taking on my first gym. Hopefully I stand a chance with my not so powerful Pokemon

[Raider]

Rest assured that you can defeat gym leaders with pokemon significantly under their strength. One on one my 600cp pidgeot knocked off a 1200cp dragonite.

[Firestorm]

Oh that's good. I think the only local gym here is currently being reigned over by a 300-something CP Arcanine
My strognest Pokemon is my Golbat at about 240CP

[i_amtrunks]

You can also team up with friends and take down gyms at the same time, if the game does not freeze, glitch or otherwise malfunction!

Types also come into consideration, so if you have an under strength Laura's going up against a stronger arc anime, you should still have an advantage.

[GoktimusPrime]

Should some places be off limits for this game/app/thing? Apparently people have been "hunting" for Pokémon at a Holocaust Museum. :eek:

[Borgeman]

Should some places be off limits for this game/app/thing? Apparently people have been "hunting" for Pokémon at a Holocaust Museum. :eek:

So long as it doesn't involve trespassing or any other illegal activity, so be it. People have been seen running onto freeways and other far more serious/dangerous areas chasing pokemon, so while it can be seen as inappropriate, I think walking through museums/graveyards/etc is the least of our concerns.

Personally, I think the game should use it's GPS tracking to block itself from working whenever it detects movement of over say 20km/h, that way people can't use it while driving - this is becoming the most serious problem atm.

[Raider]

So long as it doesn't involve trespassing or any other illegal activity, so be it. People have been seen running onto freeways and other far more serious/dangerous areas chasing pokemon, so while it can be seen as inappropriate, I think walking through museums/graveyards/etc is the least of our concerns.

Personally, I think the game should use it's GPS tracking to block itself from working whenever it detects movement of over say 20km/h, that way people can't use it while driving - this is becoming the most serious problem atm.

Yeah the amount of people I see showing up to pokestops in cars is amazing. I just hope they arent trying to catch them whilst driving too...

The problem is that it would be very difficult, i imagine, to program the game to prevent pokemon showing up inside buildings. I think people should just use commonsense and a bit of etiquette. I don't see an issue with a museum being a Pokestop (generally the location is outside such as out the front). If anything it is attracting people to the area who may be willing to go inside, not to hunt pokemon but to actually see the site they are there for.

I know I have seen some interesting artwork throughout Surry Hills that I never would have seen if not for this game.

[Zippo]

I've been having good fun with this when I am in a larger city for work, around home there isn't much to go after. I've been able to get to the wharf when lures were active so I could catch some water pokemon and at work I can sit on a PokeStop all day getting XP
- and just as I was leaving someone added a lure to that PokeStop and I managed to get some very high CP Pokemon and some new additions to the team.

Sadly what seems common in one area of the world is very rare in another

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I managed to get it on my phone here in Japan, but I don't think its properly released yet.

No pokemon around except in the areas near gyms., None near my house, which I find odd. Surely there's some kind of programming behind how the pmons are distributed. ALthough I am concerned about the effect it will have on people roaming around looking for them.

There's enough people to get in my way normally, without me having to push through ppl looking for pokemon.

On a tech side, I am rather fascinated by the application (was never really into pokemon that much), but the AR camera thing is cool, and I bet the people making it will be making lotsa cash. I'm sure companies could pay to have their site as a poke-whatever and they'll make some good bucks.

Interesting times....

[Seraphim Prime]

I bet the people making it will be making lotsa cash. I'm sure companies could pay to have their site as a poke-whatever and they'll make some good bucks.

Somebody told me they made $10 billion in 3 days.

Like any free-to-play app there's an option to buy the in-game money in bundles costing 5, 10, 50, 100 etc...

[Raider]

Somebody told me they made $10 billion in 3 days.

Like any free-to-play app there's an option to buy the in-game money in bundles costing 5, 10, 50, 100 etc...

Nintendo's share value went up $10 billion.

[GoktimusPrime]

I managed to get it on my phone here in Japan, but I don't think its properly released yet.
The Japanese version is still the Beta AFAIK.

Question: with the Australian version, are you forced to use the dub names or can you also set it to use the original Japanese names? I know that I asked this question 3 days ago, but I didn't notice any response (although admittedly I'm not reading every post on this thread, so apologies if someone's already answered it and I just haven't noticed :p)

P.S.: RE: The story about people catching Pokémon in a Holocaust museum.
Apparently the Pokémon that someone acquired at the museum was Dogars (ドガース) (http://c2.atwiki.asia/livia/2/2014/0210/353b7e54bad69508eefc.jpg), who apparently attacks by using poison gassing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp#Gassing). :eek:
https://pedestrian.tv/news/arts-and-culture/poison-gas-pokmon-found-in-holocaust-museum--offic/8e5a5870-b74b-4983-adfc-d9e1ac97b279.htm
...I actually know someone who's a Holocaust survivor too... (-_-)

[Paulbot]

Had some time to fill before a movie tonight so wandered outside to some pokestops. It's a bit weird walking around a dark park looking for Pokemon, but also fun. Saw a group of three at the local park on my way home all looking at their phones so sure they were playing too.


Question: with the Australian version, are you forced to use the dub names or can you also set it to use the original Japanese names? I know that I asked this question 3 days ago, but I didn't notice any response (although admittedly I'm not reading every post on this thread, so apologies if someone's already answered it and I just haven't noticed :p)

Yes you are "forced" to use the "dub" names. :rolleyes: Nobody in the English-speaking world cares about the Japanese names and it's never an option in the games for English-speaking audiences. If you use names like Dogars (instead of Koffing) we don't know what you're talking about :p

[Raider]

Fyi I heard that Koffing in the museum was photoshopped.

[GoktimusPrime]

Yes you are "forced" to use the "dub" names. :rolleyes: Nobody in the English-speaking world cares about the Japanese names and it's never an option in the games for English-speaking audiences. If you use names like Dogars (instead of Koffing) we don't know what you're talking about :p
I don't know the Anglophone names for Pokémon because I've never watched Pokémon dubbed. Simple as that. I'm not deliberately avoiding the use of their dub names, I just don't know them. I did also provide an image link to the Pokémon in question.

All I wanted to know was if the language option existed in this game or not (and I do have games purchased in the UK and AU which have different language options). So it sounds like I won't be wasting my time downloading this game then. No biggie, I'll just go back to playing with my Transformers then. :)

[Raider]

You would not play an awesome new game because the names are in English? Just because the name is spelt one way doesn't mean you can't read it as another. Further, like with the original game, you can rename them so you can just change to the spelling you want.

Server is down so I can't check if there is a language feature but I don't think there is from memory.

[Firestorm]

As far as I know there is no way to change the language in Pokemon go
And definitely no way to switch the names to their Japanese versions (romaji)
The only Pokemon game I know of with a language feature is Pokemon X and Y for 3DS which due to their worldwide simultaneous release had a language option upon first start up
But even then it was full language not just dub names.
If you'd rather use the Japanese names I'd suggest waiting for the Japanese release or just using the option to nickname your Pokemon to give them the names you prefer

In other news I didn't challenge the gym today. But I did catch a Staryu and hatch a Ponyta and Caterpie

[GoktimusPrime]

You would not play an awesome new game because the names are in English? Just because the name is spelt one way doesn't mean you can't read it as another.
I'm not a fan (i.e. person with fanatical interest) of Pokémon by any means (if I were, then sure, I would be less fussed). It's just that was living in Japan around when the Pokémon craze started so it was everywhere, especially in toy sections/stores when I'd go hunting for Beast Wars Transformers. It's just something that is nostalgic of my time as an exchange student so having the names in another language pretty much detracts that nostalgia for me. I have a friend who generally watches all anime subtitled, but when it comes to Macross he absolutely prefers watching Robotech because of the nostalgia. :o


Further, like with the original game, you can rename them so you can just change to the spelling you want.

Server is down so I can't check if there is a language feature but I don't think there is from memory.
Ooh, that is pretty cool. :)

[tron07]

I don't know the Anglophone names for Pokémon because I've never watched Pokémon dubbed. Simple as that. I'm not deliberately avoiding the use of their dub names, I just don't know them. I did also provide an image link to the Pokémon in question.

All I wanted to know was if the language option existed in this game or not (and I do have games purchased in the UK and AU which have different language options). So it sounds like I won't be wasting my time downloading this game then. No biggie, I'll just go back to playing with my Transformers then. :)

You can rename your pokemons, just click on the pencil icon.

[tron07]

Somebody told me they made $10 billion in 3 days.

Like any free-to-play app there's an option to buy the in-game money in bundles costing 5, 10, 50, 100 etc...

They are making 2mil per day with in-app purchases.

I am a stingy player and never pay a single cent for mobile games... but I got a over 1000CP Venusaur :D
Holding a gym with a 715 Exeggutor

[Zippo]

Had more fun just sitting at work and collecting things when I could - people using lures on PokeStops I can hit while at my desk is awesome.

Just cleaned up my caught Pokemon list and have figured out what I can evolve to get to the next evolution, and what I can evolve purely to gain XP for my human character so he can go up a level
So next time I am a) next to a lure b) have time, I will a) set of a lucky egg, b) set of incense and go forth and see what happens

My walking egg hatches are sadly not producing any decent/new Pokemon for the collection and my supply of 10KM eggs has been replaced by 2KM which are not giving me the starter Pokemon or Pikachu!

Hopefully the weekend I can get to a different area of the city and see what I can find ..

[GoktimusPrime]

...something else that was huge in Japan around the time that Pokémon came out... Tamagotchi. Time for a come back? I remember reading reports at the time of Japanese schools banning Tamagotchis because they were such a distraction and teachers were sick of continually confiscating them! :eek:

Hands up anyone else who ever deliberately let their Tamagotchi die by drowning in their own poop? ;) I actually knew someone who once ran over his Tamagotchi with a car.

[chrisjohnson]

the are lots of risks people facing now with this POKEMON GO, the major risk i found is that its app gained access to a user's Google account without their knowledge. Even though the company explained that the problem resulted from using an outdated version of Google's sign-in service, there were those who claimed that the move was in fact intentional. However, the developers finally released the app's very first update that not only dealt with said issue but fixed several other bugs as well.
source: https://www.purevpn.com/blog/protect-yourself-from-pokemon-go/

[tron07]

...something else that was huge in Japan around the time that Pokémon came out... Tamagotchi. Time for a come back? I remember reading reports at the time of Japanese schools banning Tamagotchis because they were such a distraction and teachers were sick of continually confiscating them! :eek:

Hands up anyone else who ever deliberately let their Tamagotchi die by drowning in their own poop? ;) I actually knew someone who once ran over his Tamagotchi with a car.

Also digimon.

[Paulbot]

Haven't been able to log on all morning. The server problems are a big problem for the game

[Raider]

Also digimon.

I loved that show as a kid!


Haven't been able to log on all morning. The server problems are a big problem for the game

No doubt, the game has a few floors but hopefully its just the early stages causing these issues and they will be ironed out soon along with updates to allow pvp and trading.

The number of Pokeballs ive lost from connection issues is not funny...

[GoktimusPrime]

Digimon was still in its infancy when I was in Japan. I was aware of it and there were ads and stuff, but Pokémon and Tamagotchi were WAAAY more popular. I think Digimon gained more momentum in the following year, by which time I was already back in Australia. :o I never got into Digimon, but I have heard that it does actually have a better and character-driven story with an ongoing story arc.

Sydney Pokémon Go Players held at gunpoint in a skate park while others are issued fines and demerit points for driving and using their phones (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/two-pokemon-go-players-held-at-gunpoint-at-a-sydney-skate-park-20160715-gq6ik3.html)

[i_amtrunks]

I think they upgraded the servers to a point earlier this week where I was not having anywhere near as a many issues, but then they added the UK and Germany and the servers couldn't handle it again.

Not a very smart decision there.

[Zippo]

I got technical this afternoon and started using the Ingress XM locations outside of the CBD to try and find spawn locations for Pokemon. It was very telling around home as to why I do not find anything - almost no XM around my town at all.

Did lead me to some good finds so hopefully I can start tracking down more locations.

The only issue that that the zoom out function of the map in Ingress is small, so I have to keep on stopping to check things out.

[Firestorm]

Finally took on a gym
This high CP Seaking absolutely destroyed my team
And I wasn't really sure what I was doing so that didn't help
On the plus side I caught a very powerful Pinsir in the same Lek as where that gym was. So it wasn't a total failure
With my new Pinsir I may stand a better chance next time
Also it's crazy how different being in the CBD is to being in my hometown. Just walking down the street from Flinder Street Station to Big W I managed to FILL MY BAG
Whereas for the last few days while I've been at home I have been struggling to even get any items
And thanks to all the people using Lure Modules there are SO many Pokemon there that I couldn't catch back Home
Just walking around the CBD I caught a Vulpix, Horsea, Slowpoke, Machop and Cubone as well as several Rattata and Pidgey
Here all I ever find are Rattata Pidgey Caterpie Weedle Paras and the occasional Bulbasaur (that last one is kinda neet at least)

Will definitely need to start going on more excursions to other locations

[i_amtrunks]

Just went up to the blue mountains to a park with 7 poke stops in a nice walking loop, had to keep emptying my bag from all the extraneous revives and potions!

Caught a meowth and a ryhorn, hadn't ever seen them before, as well as some more eevee and clefairy, getting close to evolving them now.

On the way back we spotted a gym about 2km from home with a lowly raticate guarding it at 315CP. My 345 Scyther took it out and so I finally ran a gym.
By the time we got home 5 minutes later I was no longer the leader, but I got 10 coins and 500 stardust which was a nice bonus.

[Raider]

So we had our first bit of Pokemon espionage today. We have a Team Blue FB group for our local area and users had been tracking where all the pokemon have been sighted. A yellow team member joined our group, under guise of being in blue team, and then stole the information off our spreadsheet, posted that we were dumb and then went back to his own group bragging about how he stole it.

Geez if they had have just asked we would have shared...

[G1Optimal]

Stampede apparantly in new york central park over a Vaporeon
http://comicbook.com/2016/07/16/vaporeon-appearance-sparks-pokemon-go-stampede-in-central-park/

[Paulbot]

I left a Venonat at a gym on the Daintree River. Wonder how long it'll last there. Also pulled from the river my most powerful Pokemon so far a CP646 Golduck.

[Firestorm]

I left a Venonat at a gym on the Daintree River. Wonder how long it'll last there. Also pulled from the river my most powerful Pokemon so far a CP646 Golduck.

646!?
Aww my most powerful Pokemon is a 354CP Pinsir
Is there something I am not getting about finding powerful Pokemon or have I just had terrible luck so far?

[Paulbot]

646!?
Aww my most powerful Pokemon is a 354CP Pinsir
Is there something I am not getting about finding powerful Pokemon or have I just had terrible luck so far?

Think it has to do with your trainer level in part, but most of my catches aren't powerful. If I take out Pokemon I've evolved and powered up, Golduck is far above the other most powerful four catches in the 230s to 270s. Everything else is under 200CP.

[ITZTRU]

Yeah I think it depends on your trainer level. I'm starting to catch high 300's, since I reached around lvl 8? 9? I'm just on 13 now.

[Raider]

Yep definitely based on trainer level and luck. I'm about to hit lvl 18 and 600ish catches aren't common but i get a few randomly. Still get 10cp pokemon show up as well.

[Firestorm]

Ok. I guess that makes sense
I think luck does have a big part to do with it though. I'm level 11 right now and still mostly find Pokemon between 10-180cp
Alhough yesterday I did find a Hypno with over 600CP
it's almost twice as powerful as my Pinsir who was my strongest up until now

[1AZRAEL1]

A lot I'm catching are around 300cp, though some other I got were higher. I have a few in the 600cp mark now. Caught about 56 different Pokemon now too, much to the annoyance of my wife coz I'm now beating her lol. Helps that I travel on trains all day and can seemingly get some ones that aren't in my area. Managed to catch a Jynx using my wife's phone while she was driving the other day

[The_Damned]

i got my 10km walk medal yesterday, havent done this much exercise in years

[1AZRAEL1]

Managed to snag myself CP 662 Nidoking this morning on my way to work, and hatched a CP 576 Ponyta from a 5km egg

[ampoldj]

Managed to snag myself CP 662 Nidoking this morning on my way to work, and hatched a CP 576 Ponyta from a 5km egg

is it in the morning the server is the busiest in our time zone? always can't connect in the morning missing out on my way to work :(

[1AZRAEL1]

is it in the morning the server is the busiest in our time zone? always can't connect in the morning missing out on my way to work :(

Probably doing server maintenance in the early hours as to not disturb people with normal 9-5 jobs. I'm having issues all morning tbh, just had some luck that I managed to have some moments of clarity

[ITZTRU]

They're some pretty high CP Pokemon AZ. What lvl are you?

[Borgeman]

Just as a reference, I was level 11 and the top end CP catchable was the 600ish, and my cousin who is level 21 (lol) he is catching pokemon up to 1500 (a 1460 odd venusaur was one he showed me yesterday)

[ITZTRU]

600 Borgeman? Damn. I'm lvl 11 now and im seeing only 400's. And that's only every so often. Grr...

[1AZRAEL1]

They're some pretty high CP Pokemon AZ. What lvl are you?

Was lvl 14 when i caught them. I'm 15 now

[Akky82]

Hit lvl 15 tonight and immediately caught an 830 pinsir, followed by an exeggcute (cant remember CP, but i was at a triple stop spot with 3 lures (not mine) in a food court having dinner and popped an egg and evolved a bunch of stuff) which I evolved into a 1328 exeggutor and was like wow...

Also named an eevee pyro and evolved it into flareon.

[SuspectimusPrime]

My girlfriend got hooked after trying it out last week (she has not played games since the Gameboy release). She's been super lucky in running into random evolved pokemon, like Dragonair in Parramatta (Church St). Since then we've shamelessly gone to Rhodes 3 times. I am level 20. We might have a problem.

[1AZRAEL1]

My girlfriend got hooked after trying it out last week (she has not played games since the Gameboy release). She's been super lucky in running into random evolved pokemon, like Dragonair in Parramatta (Church St). Since then we've shamelessly gone to Rhodes 3 times. I am level 20. We might have a problem.

It's only a problem if you admit it haha.

And as for finding evolved Pokemon, apparently it's better to do it the hard way by upgrading and evolving them yourselves. I'm checking that out for myself. Though I literally just caught Beedrill on my way home from work

[Borgeman]

600 Borgeman? Damn. I'm lvl 11 now and im seeing only 400's. And that's only every so often. Grr...

Yeah but that's the top end, other wise 400s is more common.

[laproblematique]

It's only a problem if you admit it haha.

And as for finding evolved Pokemon, apparently it's better to do it the hard way by upgrading and evolving them yourselves. I'm checking that out for myself. Though I literally just caught Beedrill on my way home from work

Disagree, much better off spamming Weedle and Caterpies into the Metapods and Kakunas and eventually finding a Beedrill/Butterfrie in the wild as odds are it will be 1 - Much higher level CP when you find one and 2 - Only 12 candies are required as opposed to 100 to evolve from the 1st evolution to the 2nd than from 2nd to 3rd. Every bit of EXP helps after you hit 20 and have to grind it out.

I'm 21 now and starting to feel it.

[SuspectimusPrime]

It's only a problem if you admit it haha.

And as for finding evolved Pokemon, apparently it's better to do it the hard way by upgrading and evolving them yourselves. I'm checking that out for myself. Though I literally just caught Beedrill on my way home from work

I tried this method in the first week, but then when I started leveling I found wild Pokemon stronger than the ones I slowly enhanced. This was a Slowbro I took up to cp1000, and then later catching a wild Slowbro with cp1100. Didn't make sense to keep the one I was growing so had to 'transfer' him to the butcher professor to be processed through his meat tenderizer to make in exchange for mincemeat 'candy'.


Disagree, much better off spamming Weedle and Caterpies into the Metapods and Kakunas and eventually finding a Beedrill/Butterfrie in the wild as odds are it will be 1 - Much higher level CP when you find one and 2 - Only 12 candies are required as opposed to 100 to evolve from the 1st evolution to the 2nd than from 2nd to 3rd. Every bit of EXP helps after you hit 20 and have to grind it out.

I'm 21 now and starting to feel it.

Yup, saved 22 Pokemon to be evolved - once I get 45 I will pop an egg. My gf only managed 38 evolutions in 30 mins last week because of the server errors.

[ITZTRU]

Also named an eevee pyro and evolved it into flareon.

So this method does infact work? Has anyone else renamed their eevie into the three different names (can't remember the actual names) and gotten the three different evolutions?

[laproblematique]

So this method does infact work? Has anyone else renamed their eevie into the three different names (can't remember the actual names) and gotten the three different evolutions?

Yep confirmed it works for everyone.

Rainer - Vaporeon (Water)
Pyro - Flareon (Fire)
Sparky - Jolteon (Electricity)

[G1Optimal]

If you want to cheat and know where the pokemon are
https://pokevision.com

Make sure to put the address in the search bar above

[1AZRAEL1]

Takes away some of the fun of discovering one you don't have, but I can understand why people would use it.

Caught a CP 1192 Polywrath at Central this morning. Wasn't hard to catch either. Think I got lucky

[SuspectimusPrime]

Gets pretty obsessive. My buddy drove out at 10:30pm to chase Venasaur. As he was driving, he realised the car in front was making the exact same turns and going in the same direction as him. When he and the car in front got to the Venasaur location, there were 5 other cars parked with their engines on.

[Bladestorm]

Pokemon Go was released in HK yesterday. My husband walked around this morning and found 80 different pokemon (and loads more duplicates) in the space of 2 hours. Is it supposed to be this easy?
He also said we have a "gym" in the middle of our apartment complex fountain which is proving popular...
I'm not expecting to see him for the next few days. ;)

[BruiseLee]

Pokemon Go was released in HK yesterday. My husband walked around this morning and found 80 different pokemon (and loads more duplicates) in the space of 2 hours. Is it supposed to be this easy?
He also said we have a "gym" in the middle of our apartment complex fountain which is proving popular...
I'm not expecting to see him for the next few days. ;)

Wow! I've been playing for about 2 weeks and only have 71 unique Pokemon. Maybe they are more condensed in HK given the smaller area. Good going for him and nice to hear that he now has a geek(ish) hobby that he can obsess on! :D

[Bladestorm]

Wow! I've been playing for about 2 weeks and only have 71 unique Pokemon. Maybe they are more condensed in HK given the smaller area. Good going for him and nice to hear that he now has a geek(ish) hobby that he can obsess on! :D

We were wondering if because of the human population here the pokemon are released in larger proportion too.
Although he says it also helps that there are 2 poke-stops within 100 metres of our apartment block and a lure right in front of Tim Ho Wan (the restaurant) which is only about 200 m away from us.
He was waiting for the lift to come back up to our apartment before and caught 4 pokemon just while waiting!
Do businesses pay for these poke-stops and lures? I just went for a walk with him and it seems every few restaurants there is one... seems too convenient that these lures are in front of places where you'd go in and sit down...

[philby]

Do businesses pay for these poke-stops and lures? I just went for a walk with him and it seems every few restaurants there is one... seems too convenient that these lures are in front of places where you'd go in and sit down...

i'm not sure if it is related or not but i heard something about mcdonalds getting involved in some countries, so if you go to a mcdonalds it has some kind of pokemon related thing there.

[SuspectimusPrime]

We were wondering if because of the human population here the pokemon are released in larger proportion too.
Although he says it also helps that there are 2 poke-stops within 100 metres of our apartment block and a lure right in front of Tim Ho Wan (the restaurant) which is only about 200 m away from us.

Someone (sorry, not the best reference) suggested that greater mobile activity leads to greater diversity in pokemon spawning. At Rhodes I caught Jynx, Magmar and Kangaskhan within 1 hr.


He was waiting for the lift to come back up to our apartment before and caught 4 pokemon just while waiting!
Do businesses pay for these poke-stops and lures? I just went for a walk with him and it seems every few restaurants there is one... seems too convenient that these lures are in front of places where you'd go in and sit down...

It doesn't look like it for the time being. Otherwise its a no brainer for a business owner to pay for several lures during the day (meal hours). Most of the time you would be able to spot one very serious customer taking advantage of the lure they've dropped down.


i'm not sure if it is related or not but i heard something about mcdonalds getting involved in some countries, so if you go to a mcdonalds it has some kind of pokemon related thing there.

That sounds counteractive to their goal of getting people out and moving!

[Paulbot]

80 different in two hours seems too easy! I've got 58 so far, some of which from evolutions and some from eggs. Would like a repel to get rid of all the Rattatas and Zubats!


Someone (sorry, not the best reference) suggested that greater mobile activity leads to greater diversity in pokemon spawning. At Rhodes I caught Jynx, Magmar and Kangaskhan within 1 hr.

I had a look at that Pokevision thing and I think that might be true... No Pokemon near my house until I opened up the app and then some start spawning.

I was at my Dad's place on the weekend and the area was a deadzone, couldn't see a gym or pokestop anywhere. At home I can see four gyms and about a dozen pokestops. Came back to work in the CBD and they are everywhere!

[Zippo]

Since the three step nearby issue is still around (some say it is deliberate), I have been using a few suggestions from programmers and utilizing "bots" in order to scan my local town and the larger city I work in, in order to a) find the spawn points and b) find what spawns there

With only a few days data, I have already been able to find a few nests where one Pokemon seem to exclusive live, along with other areas that have a higher number of some of the less common items.

It all still comes down to luck and timing however as to what will spawn when you visit the area at the correct time. Due to needing to collect multiples in order to get candies and evolve, along with how a Pokemon will get stronger as you level up I can already see multiple visits in my future to these locations.

All of this is of course against the terms of service, but it does actually make the game fun, otherwise my only hope of getting some items is via hatching eggs.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

We were wondering if because of the human population here the pokemon are released in larger proportion too.
Although he says it also helps that there are 2 poke-stops within 100 metres of our apartment block and a lure right in front of Tim Ho Wan (the restaurant) which is only about 200 m away from us.
He was waiting for the lift to come back up to our apartment before and caught 4 pokemon just while waiting!
Do businesses pay for these poke-stops and lures? I just went for a walk with him and it seems every few restaurants there is one... seems too convenient that these lures are in front of places where you'd go in and sit down...
I think the population is key. I'm in country Japan, and with very few gyms, even less pokestops and a smattering of Pokemon around the area.
However, I headed into Kobe when I was off on holiday and pokestops/gyms everywhere. Pokemon out the wahzoo. Completely different to what I see daily. Oddly, after coming back from the holiday, I had no pokeballs, a short slow bus ride through kobe and I had amassed 60 just because I manage to pass so many pokestops on the way.

I kind of wish that the pokemon were more realistically distributed. Like grass pokemon in grass areas, say Ponytas in wide spaces, water pokemon by the sea/pools etc. I get the feeling that isn't actually the case.

i'm not sure if it is related or not but i heard something about mcdonalds getting involved in some countries, so if you go to a mcdonalds it has some kind of pokemon related thing there.

McDonalds is definitely associated in Japan. They've made it quite public knowledge.

On a slight side note, there is a local Otaku who was level 25 by the night of the first day release here in Japan, and had a Magmar placeed on the closest gym to me. Now, that is a lot of work considering hwo the game got releaed at about 10.30 that day. I noticed the gym taken at about 8pm.
Yesterday I had a look and the also has a Gyarados. Meaning he has already picked up 200 Magikarp.
yowseers.
As you can imagine, me and my weak buddies have made it our mission to take him down whenever we see him at a gym. No matter how much it costs us (in potions etc) ;) :D

[i_amtrunks]

Hatched a squirted yesterday, after not even seeing one for the last few weeks and now I've caught another 3 while at Eatwood to see a mate today.

Eastwood station is a gym and while I was at my mates place it changed hands at least 15 times in two hours!

Population definitely makes a difference, I caught more and a wider variety of Pokemon in two hours at Eastwood than I do in a day at Penrith, more players does seem to equal more Pokemon.

[Firestorm]

Is it worth powering up Pokemon before evolving them?
I've been putting off evolving my Pokemon and focussing on powering them up instead but after seeing someone's Eevee jump from 400-something to over 1000 after evolving into Vaporeoen I'm wondering if I've actually been holding myself back by not evolving sooner

[1AZRAEL1]

I am testing it out myself to see which works better too. Maybe the higher you power up, the higher it will evolve.

[Paulbot]

Read something about how far your Pokemon is along it's arc before it evolves is where it will be when it evolves, which could mean a powered up first evolution will be on par with where a second evolution would be if you evolved first.

Best advice I saw was to not evolve any starter level Pokemon until you have enough candy to evolve it to the final stage. I've found that good suggestion as have definitely found more powerful Pidgeys and Ratattas than the first one I evolved.

[1AZRAEL1]

Other thing to note is if you've powered up as much as allowed, when you level up, you can power up more

[Firestorm]

I see.
Right now I've been raising a Pidgey
I've manged to get it to CP254 but now it won't let me raise it any higher at my current trainer level (despite not being at the end of its arc) is it worth keeping it a Pidgey and powering it up more when I level up do you think? Or would I be better off evolving it into Pidgeotto/Pidgeot?

[laproblematique]

I see.
Right now I've been raising a Pidgey
I've manged to get it to CP254 but now it won't let me raise it any higher at my current trainer level (despite not being at the end of its arc) is it worth keeping it a Pidgey and powering it up more when I level up do you think? Or would I be better off evolving it into Pidgeotto/Pidgeot?

I'd recommend never powering up a Pidgey/Pidgeotto as they're just so common.

Haven't played in a while but I'm level 22 and found 3 Pidgeys today that were all CP 250+. I'd suggest just catching as many of them as you can and grinding them into Pidgeottos for now for level exp.

When it comes to Pidgeys and Ratatas, I'd rather save my stardust for eventually powering up the eventual legendarys or rare pokemon like Dragonite or Snorlax - because chances are you'll find a higher CP Pidgeot/Pidgeotto/Raticate in the wild when you're a higher level. I've got just under 140,000 Stardust at the moment - just need to catch a Dragonite!

[Zippo]

Is it worth powering up Pokemon before evolving them?
I've been putting off evolving my Pokemon and focussing on powering them up instead but after seeing someone's Eevee jump from 400-something to over 1000 after evolving into Vaporeoen I'm wondering if I've actually been holding myself back by not evolving sooner

Neither
Only evolve "commons" in order to gain XP (while using a lucky egg) and do not evolve any others until you reach level 30 which means you should be finding the strongest versions in the wild.

Then you can evolve your best and then spend your stardust raising them even further.

[1AZRAEL1]

Okie dokie, did a small experiment to see what works best and here's what i found. I had 3 Pidgey at varying levels and here is how their evolving progressed.

CP 153 - 294 - 524
CP 155 - 297 - 529
CP 329 - 618 - 1089

So that 170 odd difference early on, makes for roughly 500 by 3rd evolution. So seems spending time to power them up early will pay off in the long run

[i_amtrunks]

Took some visiting friends and Pokemon go players on a tourist run through circular quay, botanical gardens, opera house, rocks and darling harbour. I only played a little yet still caught over 50 mons and filled my bag with poke balls at the ridiculous number of poke stops.

Catching ponytas and voltorbs at the opera house was fun, but really showed me that as nice as living in the suburbs is, if you want all the Pokemon, the city is the place to be!

My wife and our friends went from level 15 to 17 just from stops and catching, but will inevitably go higher once they crack a lucky egg and get evolving. My wife went from 46 caught to 80, again, before evolving.

Crazy!

[Seraphim Prime]

Okie dokie, did a small experiment to see what works best and here's what i found. I had 3 Pidgey at varying levels and here is how their evolving progressed.

CP 153 - 294 - 524
CP 155 - 297 - 529
CP 329 - 618 - 1089

So that 170 odd difference early on, makes for roughly 500 by 3rd evolution. So seems spending time to power them up early will pay off in the long run

Just did some quick maths - the ratio of the increase for each is the same
1 - 2 = 1.92
2 - 3 = 1.78

Which corresponds with what I've noticed with the progress bar, which appears to stay the same regardless of evolution. (ie - if your Pidgey is 25% of its max CP prior to evolution, your Pidgeotto will be 25% of its max CP after evolution)

The real test will be to get two pokemon at the same CP level and compare two training methods
1 - buff to a chosen CP then evolve it
2 - evolve then buff to the chosen CP

Time to farm some Zubat to test this theory...

[ITZTRU]

It is said that each individual Pokemon have (are born with) their own individual values (commonly abbreviated as IV's). Having said that, it seems the greatest possible difference between two similar pokemons with the same CP is only around 10%. So by the time you fully max out two of the same Pokemon, one will most likely have higher stats than the other (attack, defence, stamina)

So if one is looking to get THE perfect Pokemon, those are the stats they will be looking at - even if it is only 10% max difference.

There are calculators online to help determine the figures and whether or not you have an average version of your particular Pokemon or whether you have an "elite" version.

It can also help you determine which of the duplicates you might want to invest in stardust on over the other when the time comes to want to power them up.

[tron07]

I hate the new upgrade, they change the curve ball throw mechanics slightly and I have to re-adjust again.



Took some visiting friends and Pokemon go players on a tourist run through circular quay, botanical gardens, opera house, rocks and darling harbour. I only played a little yet still caught over 50 mons and filled my bag with poke balls at the ridiculous number of poke stops.

Catching ponytas and voltorbs at the opera house was fun, but really showed me that as nice as living in the suburbs is, if you want all the Pokemon, the city is the place to be!

My wife and our friends went from level 15 to 17 just from stops and catching, but will inevitably go higher once they crack a lucky egg and get evolving. My wife went from 46 caught to 80, again, before evolving.

Crazy!

Or drop by a nearby uni... the one I passed by, I notice that there are so much pokestops and they are so much closer then Circular Quay area. No free parking nearby else I would had stop and try my luck.

I saw my first pikachu near opera house, but couldnt catch it. Still havent seen another pikachu so far.

[SuspectimusPrime]

So if one is looking to get THE perfect Pokemon, those are the stats they will be looking at - even if it is only 10% max difference.

Got a couple of friends hunting for a near-perfect Magikarp (cp180-200) before using their candies to evolve. I've got to Gyarados maxed already, and yes their CP is only within 5% difference, and only 1hp difference. I'm more interested in just getting one with Hyperbeam.


I hate the new upgrade, they change the curve ball throw mechanics slightly and I have to re-adjust again.

Also, nobody wants to stay in their Pokeballs anymore.


I saw my first pikachu near opera house, but couldnt catch it. Still havent seen another pikachu so far.

I've caught 3-4 at Rhodes before they took down all 3 Pokestops in the main park, and 1 at the Opera House despite only going there once. I find him more of a nuisance because it takes so many tries to capture. Before Pokevision went down my buddy found a park with 3 Pikachus spawning and nothing else.

[BruiseLee]

Also, nobody wants to stay in their Pokeballs anymore.


Pretty much this. Just hit level 20 after the patch and now even Pidgies below CP100 keep escaping. They must know I just want to candy crush them... :D

[tron07]

Before Pokevision went down my buddy found a park with 3 Pikachus spawning and nothing else.

Enmore Park near Marrickville?

[SuspectimusPrime]

Pretty much this. Just hit level 20 after the patch and now even Pidgies below CP100 keep escaping. They must know I just want to candy crush them... :D

Perhaps in a future releases, they could integrate devastated Pidgey populations leading to destructive over-breeding of Scyther and Pinsir populations :eek::D


Enmore Park near Marrickville?

Here we go (went through all the files he sent via WhatsApp - which was a lot) - Carss Bush Park near Blakehurst/Kogarah:

http://i1263.photobucket.com/albums/ii640/Suspectimus/IMG_0774_zpstefl9bit.jpg

Also found this whilst Googling: https://www.broadsheet.com.au/sydney/city-file/article/these-maps-show-exactly-where-find-pokemon-sydney

[Raider]

If people are interested I also saw up to 5 Bulbasaur spawning at a time in Moore Park, Sydney and a bunch of Squirtle in the park south of Allianz Stadium.

[Firestorm]

Found 2 dratini one after the other in the car park outside watergardens shopping centre last night at about 6:20pm
Finding one took me by surprise
But when immediately after catching it ANOTHER showed up. I was quite amazed.
Also added Rhyhorn, Machoke, Venomoth and Weepinbell to my pokedex while out yesterday

[Zippo]

Been running my own bots again, finally saw a Dratini locally ... jumped in the car and was off.

Razz Berry + Ultra Ball
Escaped from the ball of the first roll and escaped ..

Sigh!

Have a few days off, so hope to get out and about to places I can't normally get to either before, during or after work. Of course it is winter over here and is supposed to snow this week ..

[Bladestorm]

Hey Zippo, did you see this article about NZ's Pokemon capital (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11687181)?

he he

My hubs has been playing a week. He's just hit level 24 and has 94 unique pokemon.
He mostly gets what I call "dead fish" - magikarp(?) and pidgy's (some bird thing). Our apartment is on the water so maybe that's why these floppy things keep appearing. When he's out he seems to get a lot of bat-things (zubats?)...
I collect stuff for him while we're driving around but he's started taking buses everywhere as they are slow enough to collect a lot of the pokestops easily.

He says the gym in our complex changes hand on average around every 15 minutes. It's kind of crazy. We have people of all ages sitting next to the fountain (which is the poke-gym) just battling for hours. Seems kind of fruitless to me when you know you're just gunna be beaten.

[tron07]

Bulbasaur's one of my favourite. I have a venusaur and enough bulbasuar candies to create another one. Waiting for the right time to pop a lucky egg.

I am also collecting magikarps. Need 100 of them (400 candies to evolve)

You just need to put your pokemon in the gym when the counter is down to 0 to collect the coins, dont need to hold it for long. If not greedy 10 coins per day. Sometimes, you can just walk pass and slot one in when it changes hands.

[tron07]

One thing about it is that nowadays its difficult to catch pokemons, even with razzberries and ultra balls, 100-200 CP rare stuffs like bulbasuar, squirtle all still break out easily using curve throw and at the smallest circle. Used to be able to just catch them with normal balls and razzberries.

[1AZRAEL1]

Bulbasaur's one of my favourite. I have a venusaur and enough bulbasuar candies to create another one. Waiting for the right time to pop a lucky egg.

I am also collecting magikarps. Need 100 of them (400 candies to evolve)

You just need to put your pokemon in the gym when the counter is down to 0 to collect the coins, dont need to hold it for long. If not greedy 10 coins per day. Sometimes, you can just walk pass and slot one in when it changes hands.

Pop a lucky egg if you're gonna evolve a heap of Pidgey, gains a lot of XP that way. And try catch more than 100 Magikarp, get the one you want to the highest CP you can before evolving

[Raider]

Pop a lucky egg if you're gonna evolve a heap of Pidgey, gains a lot of XP that way. And try catch more than 100 Magikarp, get the one you want to the highest CP you can before evolving

Yeah the pidgey evolving seems to be the most efficient way. I farmed up 300 candies then popped an egg and just started evolving. It's a boring 30 mins but gets you a lot of xp fast.

I would also suggest waiting until you are at least well into the 20s before evolving your magikarp. I made this mistake early and now it costs a hell of a lot of stardust to increase CP every time I lvl up.

[SuspectimusPrime]

One thing about it is that nowadays its difficult to catch pokemons, even with razzberries and ultra balls, 100-200 CP rare stuffs like bulbasuar, squirtle all still break out easily using curve throw and at the smallest circle. Used to be able to just catch them with normal balls and razzberries.

Yeah the break free & escape rates have all gone up. With the 3 starting Pokemon it seems like their aggression level has geared up drastically - even CP150 Bulbasaurs/Squirtles get a dark orange circle. I have almost given up on catching Charmander - only ever seen/caught 2.

[1AZRAEL1]

Yeah the pidgey evolving seems to be the most efficient way. I farmed up 300 candies then popped an egg and just started evolving. It's a boring 30 mins but gets you a lot of xp fast.

I would also suggest waiting until you are at least well into the 20s before evolving your magikarp. I made this mistake early and now it costs a hell of a lot of stardust to increase CP every time I lvl up.

I did the pidgey method, and a whole bunch of other evolves, especially to ones I didn't have for extra XP.

Getting enough Magikarp to evolve would take most people into their 20's before they had enough. I mean hell, I've only just got over 100 candy now lol

[ITZTRU]

I live around 15 mins from a lake where i can get around 20 magikarp in an hour? I evolved my first in a hurry coz i was so excited but then only ended up with a 1400 gyarados. I think I was around lvl 18 or so. So now I'm farming again to see what evolution i end up with now that im 22

[1AZRAEL1]

Depends on spawning points. I don't live close to any of his major spawning points. Have caught him wherever I see him

[Raider]

So it's been about a week now since I last logged in. No way to track pokemon and a lack of any updates (that actually add to the game instead of removing features) has really made the game repetitive and boring. Such a shame as it had such great potential. Anyone else feeling the same way?

[SuspectimusPrime]

So it's been about a week now since I last logged in. No way to track pokemon and a lack of any updates (that actually add to the game instead of removing features) has really made the game repetitive and boring. Such a shame as it had such great potential. Anyone else feeling the same way?

Yep, I've only spent about 3 hrs in the past week (which is a sharp fall from the previous week). That time was only spent chasing the last 10 Dratinis I needed from Parramatta River to make Dragonite (I was lucky to catch the first 30 Dratinis at Redfern Park before the update which turned them into Eevees). Only glancing at the game during lunch now, but have noticed much fewer lures around the city.

Of the 5 other friends playing, we've still got one that's completely obsessed with getting to level 40 and catching the perfect IV Pokemon.

[tron07]

Pop a lucky egg if you're gonna evolve a heap of Pidgey, gains a lot of XP that way. And try catch more than 100 Magikarp, get the one you want to the highest CP you can before evolving

I still havent evolve them yet... got over 200 candies each for the commons like pidgeys, caterpies, widget and the other pokemons. Like I say waiting for the right time. I can get like 10-15 magikcarp per day, I dont have the patience to sit and wait for them to respawn at their nest cause I always see a squirtle nearby and go hunting for it but cant seem to find it. The squirtle seems to respawn every 30-60 min

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I've been dropping off playing this as well. The main reason is because I have hit level 14 and even crap pokemon are popping up very rarely. There's only one pokestop that is nearby (and even then it's not that close), but the biggest reason is there is bugger all to do in the game.
Catch pokemon.
Send them to the grinder for candy. Evolve them.
That's it.
The new Pokemon I see are so few, I'll never get to having 50 Ponytas candies and None of my pokemon are good enough to gym battle.

On top of that, having pretty much bugger all idea about pokemon, I don't know what type is stronger than another type and when I have gym battled, I have no idea whats going on, coz the game hasn't explained anything.

Long story short, it's a game with nothing to do.

I'd be fine with just collecting pokemon, if they actually showed up at a dcent rate, but they don't and when the do now, they are just too much of a pain in the arse to capture.

[G1Optimal]

FYI in case no body knew....

Lvl cap currently is 40
The max Cp for caught pokemon is reached at lvl 30 so they will not get higher
The max cp for hatched pokemon is reached at lvl 20

[Paulbot]

I'm still playing. On the bus and train there's some skill to hitting the Pokestop at just the right spot so you claim it before your zoom too far past it.

I need to do more/longer walks and having the game going makes that a bit more enjoyable. Route a path through a few pokestops, catch some random Pokemon. Paid off: caught a Wartortle on Sunday which I'd never seen before in the wild.

Caught a few more powerful Pokemon on my way to/from work now that I'm at level 19. A CP772 Sandslash and CP958 Pinsir I caught over the last 24 hours are the most powerful in my collection.

I'd like to complete the Pokedex and that's enough for me. The training/gym battles doesn't interest me much.

[i_amtrunks]

I'd like to complete the Pokedex and that's enough for me. The training/gym battles doesn't interest me much.

This is my goal too.

Though I am annoyed that my walking is fast enough to make the warning message about not driving come up, so I missed out on a good 2km or so of hatching steps today as I didn't realise the message had come up until after I had finished my playground duty.

[tron07]

I only take gym when the counter is 0. Put in 2 gym and collect, sometimes when lazy, 1 gym would be good enough. Dont need to hold on for long.

What are your CP like? Mine are like 1400 and blow. Close to 30 pokemon between 1000-1400.

How much stardust you guys still have? I have like over 100k of now, didnt power up much.

[Zippo]

I am plugging away, have now caught 100 different Pokemon (seen 102) and am close to a few more new evolutions after doing 7 tonight via my last lucky egg hatching spree (62K XP gained, made a small dent in the level 23 grind)

250K stardust, and won't touch it until I get to level 30+ and can't find any better wild Pokemon.

Looking forward to getting away to several other parts of the country over the next few weeks in order to try and get some Pokemon I haven't seen down here (or see enough off - starters, Pikachu, Dratini, Kabuto etc)

[Bladestorm]

Are you guys finding after the latest update it is too sensitive about how "fast" you are walking?
I took my son walking down the street today and twice within 500 metres it told us we were moving too fast and an "i'm a passenger" dialogue kept popping up.
It seems like the GPS is bouncing around (which is expected in HK given all the high rises) to a point where trying to hatch an egg has become incredibly difficult here because the app now thinks it is constantly in a moving vehicle.

[BruiseLee]

^ yep. If this keeps up its going to make me think I should try for the next Olympics!

[tron07]

Yup... The I am a passenger keep poping up everynow and then even when walking as you suddenly skip to the next block.

And I found that I can jump a block if I go down to basement and collect the pokestop at the next street.

[G1Optimal]

I just found out there is such thing as a mega pokestop in which you have to get a chain of 10 pokestops without using one you used previously.

It gives more items (6-9 compared to 3-4)and 100xp

[KaRNiV8L PRiME]

My Progress so far

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpzkjjjUMAAbKtJ.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpzklmlUsAQ1Qm6.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpzknBoVYAAYESR.jpg

[Bladestorm]

While out in Causeway Bay we found a rare Pikachu at one of the poke-stops.

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8630/28690523440_6ccd1213f0.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/KHhr4f)

Pity it didn't come with any bonuses. ;)

[tron07]

Haha.... so cute

[tron07]

Which Magikarp to evlove? CP122 and spend a bit more dust to bring it up? or continue to try to find better ones?

CP133 HP-29 DUST-3000 Perfect:42-73%
CP122 HP-31 DUST-2200 Perfect:64-86%

[SuspectimusPrime]

If it isn't too hard to encounter Magikarps in your area, I would prefer to wait for a high level and aim to catch a much stronger one. At level 24 I came across cp150+ Magikarps about 10% of the time.

For rarer Pokemon, like my Bulbasaur, I went with a lower CP (about 70% of its max potential) but more perfect IV stats (~90%).

[tron07]

I know a couple of drains that spawns magikarps... but since I got over 400 candies, the drive to go look for them have diminished. A cp140 got away cause I didnt want to use the ultra balls.

[ITZTRU]

I wouldn't power anything up until after it evolves. The move set the Pokemon has after it evolves might not be something you are happy with and you may regret having spent the star dust. At least after the Pokemon evolves, you can see the move set that it has and you can decide whether you are happy with the moves and then choose to either power it up or leave it be. (If that made sense)

[Megatran]

The local council for the Glen Waverley (VIC) golf course has put up a sign post to warn Pokemon GO players to keep the f**k off the golf course. I'm paraphrasing btw.

[BruiseLee]

The local council for the Glen Waverley (VIC) golf course has had put up a sign post to warn Pokemon GO players to keep the f**k off the golf course. I'm paraphrasing btw.

Fair call about the greens. Heard that there were a few bad eggs not treating the grounds with respect. Think people are still allowed on the walkways as it is a public golf course though.

[i_amtrunks]

The local district soccer club has put a sign up welcoming Pokemon Go players for group walks around the grounds while their kids play soccer. Also asked them to check in or somesuch on some other app/site.

But fair call for pokemon catchers to stay off the greens of a golf course, not good for their heads or the grounds.

[Megatran]

Fair call about the greens. Heard that there were a few bad eggs not treating the grounds with respect. Think people are still allowed on the walkways as it is a public golf course though.
Sign board: Attention Pokemon GO users (http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/n/a/1/f/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349. 1dna0a.png/1471672947844.jpg)

The message is pretty clear.

[1AZRAEL1]

First recorded death for playing Pokemon GO in Japan

http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/first-pokemon-go-death-reported-in-japan/news-story/c59fc9899cd419050fa98019c7867e5d

Some bell end hit pedestrians while playing he was playing the game, killing one of them and injuring another.

Are people really that stupid? And the answer is a right in your face yes. It's people like this that ruin a good thing, and caused the developers to introduce warnings on the game to save themselves from lawsuits. I hate that friggin message that pops up if you're moving too fast. I had one girl openly admit nearly running into a police car while playing whilst she was driving.

Case in point, I hate people

[shockNwave]

First recorded death for playing Pokemon GO in Japan

http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/first-pokemon-go-death-reported-in-japan/news-story/c59fc9899cd419050fa98019c7867e5d

Some bell end hit pedestrians while playing he was playing the game, killing one of them and injuring another.

Are people really that stupid? And the answer is a right in your face yes. It's people like this that ruin a good thing, and caused the developers to introduce warnings on the game to save themselves from lawsuits. I hate that friggin message that pops up if you're moving too fast. I had one girl openly admit nearly running into a police car while playing whilst she was driving.

Case in point, I hate people

Down here in Melbourne there's a gig guide called The Music where a cartoonist is so sick and tired of the kind of people you've just mentioned that he resorts to calling them Pokemorons.

[Shirokaze]

Sign board: Attention Pokemon GO users (http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/n/a/1/f/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349. 1dna0a.png/1471672947844.jpg)

The message is pretty clear.

Glen Waverley is a Charmander nest, so I'm not surprised it's gotten out of hand. :p

[tron07]

why would they put a nest inside the golf's greens? kinda of dumb thing for the developer to do.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I've noticed a definite drop in Pokeplayers running around the streets lately. I'm surprised it's dropped so quickly, especially since it's still summer Holidays here.

Although judging by the gyms in the are, everyone has been going hardcore, cranking themselves to at least level 25 and most seem to ave a snorlax. Burnout?

[Paulbot]

There was at least 20 other people walking around Edinburgh Gardens playing Pokemkn when I was there around midnight Saturday night... So people still playing here. I just want to finish my pokedex! (And that late night visit got me a couple of Pikachus and a Lickitung!)

[1AZRAEL1]

My compulsiveness wants me to complete my pokedex too. And hell, some are so rare I've never even seen other people have it in a gym yet, except the one I put in one recently. A Porygon. Haven't seen one in the wild yet, but I hatched one from a 5km egg.

[SuspectimusPrime]

You're pretty lucky to get it from a 5km egg, I got mine from a 10km. I did see Porygon pop up on my nearby list yesterday in Melbourne near Collins St. Couldn't find it though.

Finally hatched a Chansey from a 10km egg 2 weeks ago.

[1AZRAEL1]

I was blown away tbh coz I'd never seen it. Hatched at just under 1k CP too

[i_amtrunks]

Caught a porygon closer to release near Messina in Parramatta but it's only 400, too weak to do much with.

That being said I only just saw and caught my first Charmander last week and I've yet to even see an electric rat, fossil or Tauros. Most people seem to be getting many of the last 30 or so mon from eggs, but I only get shellder from the 5km and wheedle from the 2km. My one and only 10km gave me a pinsir that got turned straight into candy.

[G1Optimal]

Caught a porygon closer to release near Messina in Parramatta but it's only 400, too weak to do much with.

That being said I only just saw and caught my first Charmander last week and I've yet to even see an electric rat, fossil or Tauros. Most people seem to be getting many of the last 30 or so mon from eggs, but I only get shellder from the 5km and wheedle from the 2km. My one and only 10km gave me a pinsir that got turned straight into candy.

Tauros is a region locked pokemon to north america but can get it if hatched i think

Kangaskan is specific to australia and nz
Mr Mime is locked to western europe
Farfecthed is locked to asia

[griffin]

Saw this video on TV tonight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wawEqVpmpyU). The game was late to Taiwan and crowds are still fighting to catch the rarer ones.

[1AZRAEL1]

Tauros is locked to US, but I've seen a couple of gyms have him in Sydney. Either they are hatched, or someone was either on holidays in US or a US citizen on holidays here. The coding is there in the game

[Paulbot]

Tauros is locked to US, but I've seen a couple of gyms have him in Sydney. Either they are hatched, or someone was either on holidays in US or a US citizen on holidays here. The coding is there in the game

Or people cheated using other apps and hacks...

[1AZRAEL1]

Or people cheated using other apps and hacks...

Yes that too unfortunately

[Raider]

My folks just spent 4 weeks in the US and I was tempted to ask them to catch one over there for me (ie log into my account and catch it) but decided against it for fear of being banned. Would have been nice though.

On the popularity side, yeah the game has died quickly. This is what happens when they open the game only partly finished and don't provide any major updates since it came out. I had a FB group that was active daily, now it is down to maybe 1 or 2 posts from members a week.

They are so focused on rolling it out to other countries that they are not providing current players with incentives to keep playing. Only so much appeal you can get from constantly throwing pokeballs and gym battles.

I turn it on maybe once a week if I have nothing better to do. Otherwise I'm done with the game until some decent content arrives. It shouldn't take this long for PVP, trading and a better system for raising and battling pokemon.

Don't even get me started on the battle system which is just a tapping frenzy, no skill really involved. I miss the old Gameboy battle system.

/end_rant

[tron07]

Or people cheated using other apps and hacks...

Not necessary, some pass the account to someone in US to catch one.

[SuspectimusPrime]

My folks just spent 4 weeks in the US and I was tempted to ask them to catch one over there for me (ie log into my account and catch it) but decided against it for fear of being banned. Would have been nice though.

My sis is in Japan and we've been aiming for the same thing. I've caught her a Kangaskhan now that they're so common, and am waiting for her to catch me a Farfetch'd. I suppose if my account was banned because of this I'll just stop playing altogether, so no huge loss.


Don't even get me started on the battle system which is just a tapping frenzy, no skill really involved. I miss the old Gameboy battle system.

/end_rant

+1. Give us better gameplay and 90's graphics! Do appreciate that all the Pokemon sounds makes are from the original game.

[Raider]

Not necessary, some pass the account to someone in US to catch one.

According to the official Pokémon GO Trainer guidelines (https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/221993967) players are, shockingly, not allowed to cheat.

"Methods of cheating, unfortunately, are limited only by cheaters’ imaginations, but include at a minimum the following:... sharing accounts...".

The Pokémon GO Terms of Service (https://www.nianticlabs.com/terms/pokemongo/en) states that:

"...our Trainer Guidelines... govern your use of our Services."

In other words, breach of the Guidelines can give rise to a reason to apply the banhammer. Given that they can "terminate your access to and use of the Services, at [their] sole discretion, at any time and without notice to you", there is a good chance that you could get banned for this.

For the time being I wouldn't suggest account sharing. Just wait until trading starts, which at the current rate should be some time in the next 5 years...

[tron07]

I like the new appraise feature, anything decent will head straight to the candy factory.

Anything strong will keep for later to check IV stats.

[Raider]

Well my pokemon adventures are over. Can't believe they are blocking everyone with a rooted phone. It is like the best thing about androids! Oh well, at least I won't be there to witness them completely screw this game up although I'm a little pissed about all the wasted hours and money...

[1AZRAEL1]

What do you mean they are blocking rooted phones? What is the benefit of a rooted phone for this game?

[Raider]

What do you mean they are blocking rooted phones? What is the benefit of a rooted phone for this game?

If your phone is rooted you can supposedly download unofficial apps that help you cheat in the game. So based on their thinking, everyone who has a rooted phone is a cheat and is banned from playing on a rooted device. Since all my devices are rooted the game is over for me...

[1AZRAEL1]

Hopefully it does stamp out the cheats. It's sad that people have to cheat to enjoy the game. Unfortunately the ones that aren't cheating suffer. Way of the world ain't it? Some people do the wrong thing so a blanket ban is imposed.

[Raider]

Hopefully it does stamp out the cheats. It's sad that people have to cheat to enjoy the game. Unfortunately the ones that aren't cheating suffer. Way of the world ain't it? Some people do the wrong thing so a blanket ban is imposed.

The stupid thing though is that the cheats are the ones who will be able to figure out how to circumvent this whilst us not so tech savvy people (I had a friend root my phone for me) will be screwed. All this will do is prevent those who don't cheat from playing. Stupid move. Wonder if I can get a refund on my coin purchases.

[1AZRAEL1]

I hate cheats. It removes the fun. They all do it for bragging rights, but it's hollow.

You can always try kick up a stink to try get your money back, but I don't like your chances. Maybe with enough bad publicity over this they might bow down.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I booted up pokemon go last night and went for a walk. My Pokemon nearby showed NO pokemon nearby for the whole walk.

Bloody hell. I know I am in the country, but holy pooopaloops. That's just a big whack of BS.

[Zippo]

Managed to get a PoGo Plus device and it is awesome.
With my "new" list down to 13 Pokemon that I can at the moment, my reason for hunting is candies and XP.

Being able to use the plus while driving gives me a chance to get a few Stop and Pokemon I wouldn't have been able to get before.

It is not perfect at all, but it is good.

[Bladestorm]

Managed to get a PoGo Plus device and it is awesome.
With my "new" list down to 13 Pokemon that I can at the moment, my reason for hunting is candies and XP.

Being able to use the plus while driving gives me a chance to get a few Stop and Pokemon I wouldn't have been able to get before.

It is not perfect at all, but it is good.

hmm... just looked up what it is... I think I need to find one for my husband as he's still going strong.

Can't believe the markup on them when I look at amazon/ebay though! Will have to see what stores on the ground here are charging when I'm out and about.

Thanks for the heads up!

[1AZRAEL1]

EB Games are about to put an online only preorder for it in 10mins. But looks like you can pick up in store for delivery. About $50 for it

[Zippo]

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a385/nz-kiwiman/Hauls/Zippos%20September%202016%20Haul%2010_zpsrl5thzsk. jpg (http://s15.photobucket.com/user/nz-kiwiman/media/Hauls/Zippos%20September%202016%20Haul%2010_zpsrl5thzsk. jpg.html)

Has completely changed the way I play the game!
10 left until I can complete my New Zealand Pokedex, though only 8 of those can be obtained via the buddy system and to get there I need to walk over 1200km!!

[Krayt]

Who do you still need?

Got 133 myself, 7 to evolve... 2 that have been seen nearby or are in eggs.... And the rest are region or legends

[Zippo]

Have 131, only counting the 141 that I can get in New Zealand (no regional exclusives here)

Need
Charizard
Blastoise
Raichu (currently working on the candies)
Nine Tails
Dudrio
Muk
Hitmonlee - probably egg only
Kabutops
Dragonite
Porygon - probably egg only

[Krayt]

Have 131, only counting the 141 that I can get in New Zealand (no regional exclusives here)

Need
Charizard
Blastoise
Raichu (currently working on the candies)
Nine Tails
Dudrio
Muk
Hitmonlee - probably egg only
Kabutops
Dragonite
Porygon - probably egg only

Charizard, blastoise, dodrio, Muk, hitmonlee, dragonite and polygon are all spawning here in Melbourne. Finding lots of nests around, latest change swapped out Pikachus park with Kabuto, so we got kabutops yesterday.

You should give someone your login to get kanga for you.

Which are of kiwi land? Interested in searching your region to see what's around you.

[Raider]

You should give someone your login to get kanga for you.

Be careful, that is a breach of the Terms of Service and you can get banned for that.

[Krayt]

Be careful, that is a breach of the Terms of Service and you can get banned for that.

nah.... we have 3 players in our house and only 2 capable phones.... always chopping and changing

[Bladestorm]

Are there any good spots to Pokemon hunt in Sydney?
My son is desperately after whatever the regional pokemon is down there and we'll be there next week so I'd like to ensure he gets one...

Zippo, you need another trip to HK... Dragonite has been spawning at least once a week right next to the pokestop attached to the hotel you stayed in North Point (although my husband says the rating/HP for them are always useless)... He had to evolve to get the good one he has.

[Raider]

nah.... we have 3 players in our house and only 2 capable phones.... always chopping and changing

I'm talking about having a friend in a foreign country do it. I have heard that people have been banned for that.

[Krayt]

Are there any good spots to Pokemon hunt in Sydney?
My son is desperately after whatever the regional pokemon is down there and we'll be there next week so I'd like to ensure he gets one...

Zippo, you need another trip to HK... Dragonite has been spawning at least once a week right next to the pokestop attached to the hotel you stayed in North Point (although my husband says the rating/HP for them are always useless)... He had to evolve to get the good one he has.

Where are you staying? i'll find you good spots....

Kangaskahn actually been turning up EVERYWHERE since the second last spawn change..... we see them more than we see zubats nowdays!

My last sydney trip, i caught 100 (200 actually) magikarp in one night to get our Gyrados

[1AZRAEL1]

Are there any good spots to Pokemon hunt in Sydney?
My son is desperately after whatever the regional pokemon is down there and we'll be there next week so I'd like to ensure he gets one...

Zippo, you need another trip to HK... Dragonite has been spawning at least once a week right next to the pokestop attached to the hotel you stayed in North Point (although my husband says the rating/HP for them are always useless)... He had to evolve to get the good one he has.

Circular Quay is a great place to go because there is almost always pokestops with lures on them near the wharf. Every time I went through there in a train while at work, caught dratini, magikarps, voltorbs, and plenty of other randoms

[i_amtrunks]

If you do the general tourist places, you'll get lots of water types, dratini and voltorbs. Opera house and botanical gardens are also fantastic places, helps you rack up the poke kilometres too.

[Raider]

Circular Quay is a great place to go because there is almost always pokestops with lures on them near the wharf. Every time I went through there in a train while at work, caught dratini, magikarps, voltorbs, and plenty of other randoms

I think from memory there is a cafe/restaurant you can sit at in Circular Quay just up towards the Opera House where you can hit 3 pokestops at once! Sit there for an hour and rack them up.

[Bladestorm]

Where are you staying? i'll find you good spots....

Kangaskahn actually been turning up EVERYWHERE since the second last spawn change..... we see them more than we see zubats nowdays!

My last sydney trip, i caught 100 (200 actually) magikarp in one night to get our Gyrados

I'm staying in Chatswood.

Glad to hear the Kangaskahn is kind of common. The bird thing specific to Asia is quite hard to come by here. My son has only caught 2 since he started playing.

We don't need magicarp though... god - the less of them the better. We live next to the water here in HK so they spawn in our apartment ALL THE TIME! Gyarados is one of the most common pokemon in gyms here, along with dragonite.

My kids and hubby love the spots where 3 pokestops overlap. There's a spot in Victoria Park here in HK where you can't keep up with all the pokemon spawning if they all have lures on them (and thousands of people will just stand around there catching endless pokemon for hours)... and you tend to get semi-rare to rare pokemn from that spot every 10 minutes or so.

Aside from Taronga Zoo not planning to do the touristy stuff as I'm there to let my in-laws spend quality time with their grandchildren so generally we'll be hanging out in Chatswood and the 'burbs...

Do the shopping centres have pokestops in them? eg Toys R Us here have pokestops they intentionally lure so people will want to come linger in their store...

[Krayt]

There's a kangaskhan inchatswood RIGHT NOW!!

[Zippo]

I have actually been looking at a "quick" trip across to Sydney just to be able to try and locate a few Pokemon I need, and of course the region exclusive.

Sadly accommodation costs way more than I want to pay!

Another HK trip just for Pokemon would be nice, but not for another year at least!!


Since we have finally had some decent weather, I have been hunting out Squirtle and Bulbasaur areas after work in order to gather more candies. On the way back from an average hunt tonight I stopped in the industrial area at "spawn time". As my map reloaded and I checked out the sightings area, I spotted a silhouette - Blastoise was in the area.
Managed to track him down and then spent an annoying 5 minutes throwing my best curved ultra balls at him. Somewhere around the 15th I finally caught my highest CP Pokemon and managed to cross one more off my list

It was also amazing watching all the cars come and stop right where Blastoise was .. this is normally a very quiet area and a place I have been to often. Somehow the word got out very quickly that Blastoise was there.

CP1902, Level 27, 80% IV

[Krayt]

You sound like you DONT know about the webpages and apps that let you scan what's in an area and how long they have left....

[Zippo]

You sound like you DONT know about the webpages and apps that let you scan what's in an area and how long they have left....

I use them all the time, well that is until today when the two I knew of either stopped working or where only working at half capacity. There just isn't much locally to get excited over as what I am missing is very rare locally.

[ITZTRU]

Just completed my pokedex tonight! I'm off to the Philippines and US in March so hopefully be able to get two of the region exclusives

[tron07]

Circular Quay area, you can get like 5 pokestop overlap by walking few steps... 3 are together, another 2 is few steps away. Activate a lure and walk around them. Sadly I have only manage to go there 2 times so far.

Sydney Fish Market and the park next to it or Hyde park in CBD.

I have only caught 122 or evolve Pokemons so far.

Kangaskhan is everywhere, sometimes I dont even bother catching him as its hard to get him and no use for the candies.

Where to find Dragonite, Lapras or Snorlax? I notice some people have lot of them in the gyms that I am in.

Others I still need are Electabuzz, Omastar, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, etc....

[i_amtrunks]

It's annoying that now if you see a Pokémon in a gym it counts towards your seen total even though you've not seen them in the wild. Went from 88 seen and caught (been waiting for weeks to get closer to 100 with a lucky egg evening of evolving) but now I'm 88 caught from 93 seen.

I too would love to know where people find lapras, electabuzz, fossils and so many dratini. I'm guessing heavily populate pokestops may have something to do with it. I've only hatched an aerodactyl and haven't even seen a growlithe yet so many nearby gyms have arcanines!

[Bladestorm]

I am really surprised by how common Khangastan is. We've caught something like 10 of them so far... the Farfetch'd is REALLY hard to find in Hong Kong... you can search for a month and still not get it.

However I do notice some of the semi-rare Pokémon seem more common here like Machops and dodrio and more evolved Pokémon appear more frequently. It certainly makes it harder to have a full bag when you have so many fewer pokestops to access though. And a lot harder to get coins as the gyms are so few and they all seem to be level 8 or 10...

It's almost a different game in oz to what it is in Hong Kong... just my observation anyways.

[Bladestorm]

It's annoying that now if you see a Pokémon in a gym it counts towards your seen total even though you've not seen them in the wild. Went from 88 seen and caught (been waiting for weeks to get closer to 100 with a lucky egg evening of evolving) but now I'm 88 caught from 93 seen.

I too would love to know where people find lapras, electabuzz, fossils and so many dratini. I'm guessing heavily populate pokestops may have something to do with it. I've only hatched an aerodactyl and haven't even seen a growlithe yet so many nearby gyms have arcanines!

It depends on your area I think. Our home in HK is right on the water so we get lots of dratini. We have a park close by that was a nest for Jynx but has now become a nest for growlithe/ valpix... so I guess there are nests in Sydney too? You'll just have to find them perhaps...

[Krayt]

I too would love to know where people find lapras, electabuzz, fossils and so many dratini. I'm guessing heavily populate pokestops may have something to do with it. I've only hatched an aerodactyl and haven't even seen a growlithe yet so many nearby gyms have arcanines!

The tracker maps online let us see parks or golf clubs that are nests for certain Pokemon. Sometimes they even stayed the same while the rest of the areas saw a shift in the Pokemon population of that area.

For example, omanyte was around Melbourne museum, Pikachu at a nearby park, electabuzz was at a golf club. These would rescan all day every day. The Pikachu park luckily changed just before the maps died to Kabuto park.

Albert park lake (F1 Grand Prix) has had a few changes, ghastly (we found wild final evolve so didn't bother) abra (2 nights and we had enough for alakazam) and vulpix.

Drafting doesn't show like this..... But hunt magikarp long enoug and you get the drafts in between

[SuspectimusPrime]

I hung around CQ for a few hours (my second time there for Pokemon) waiting for my partner to finish work on Monday night. Caught 3 Dratinis, 1 Dragonair, several Kabutos, Nidoqueen, and Hitmonlee. On my first time there I caught Lapras and Snorlax (over a month ago, during the hype).

Belmore Park near Central is a good spot for Kabuto. I've previously caught Kabutops from Rhodes though.

Got Omanyte and Omastar from Parra river.

Hatched Aerodactyl but also caught one outside Bondi Westfields - right after City2Surf, I did not have the energy for it, but my partner went ballistic when she saw its silhouette on the nearby list.

[tron07]

I found random Aerodactyl at a park near where I stay, I saw him on the map, click on him but got the gym he was standing nearby, close the gym but he was gone. Spewing. Then saw him again at another park/playground nearby few days later and got him, about CP1400. I found a few Jinx at a park at one night, but when I went back there next time, none of them turn up, which was very strange. I also need more voltorb and magnemites. I found some dratinis at those large drains but still not enough to evolve a dragonite, usually go there to find magikarps.

Magamar always turn up at Eastwood park. Havent go there for the last month so not sure if its still valid or not.

I spend an hour and quite a lot of potions to take a level 10 gym down to level 7 as majority of the strong pokemons are in the gym. Also I need to clear some of the potions as I got too much. The next day, the gym was gone, someone had finish the job I started. Once the gym is down, it will be hanging around level 4-6 for quite a while. Nowadays I usually get 7-8 in a gym daily to collect the coins.

Any working radar or scanners nowadays? Saw a growlite that is nearby yesterday, but couldnt find him.

[Zippo]

Loved the Halloween event; double candies from captures, transfers and egg hatches as well as significantly reduced buddy walking distance.

Spent real money purchasing a lot more incubators and was able to get some pretty decent hatches from it, including my first Porygon.

Will all the candies and hatches, after I do a few more evolutions I will have 139 out of the 141 Pokemon I can get in New Zealand (and am 14 candy away from being able to evolve a Grimmer but the one I have is very weak).

Also finally got my first wild Dragonite (a few hours after securing all the candy needed by walking a Dratini)

However I will be glad to see some of the other Pokemon; as I use the Plus to capture, I found the Halloween Pokemon harder to capture in general

[1AZRAEL1]

I found the Halloween ones easy to catch, was all the other random ones like low level Pidgey I was having troubles with

[The_Damned]

lol hatched a chansy today and evolved my pikachu loved 250m buddy for pikachu atm

[Paulbot]

I wondered if there was some Halloween special going on. I barely play the game anymore, but I did look at it yesterday and noticed there were a lot more cats (Meowths), psychic and ghost pokemon about than normal.

[tron07]

I wondered if there was some Halloween special going on. I barely play the game anymore, but I did look at it yesterday and noticed there were a lot more cats (Meowths), psychic and ghost pokemon about than normal.

Double candies, and 1/4 the walk duration for companion pokemons. Should be ending soon.

[tron07]

Spent real money purchasing a lot more incubators and was able to get some pretty decent hatches from it, including my first Porygon.


I never spend money on games, but I get like over 3000 coins from holding gyms. Spend it on the 25 lucky eggs, upgrade storage and pokemons.

[Zippo]

Oddly enough it is now the 2nd in most parts of the world and the event is still going. Managed to get enough candies to evolve Grimer, though the only one I have to evolve is very low level ..

Back to walking Charmander for more candies to power him up..

[Paulbot]

Tonight on my way home I managed to get a couple of extra Pokemon out of this event too. More of these would be good - when all I kept seeing were Pidgeys and Ratattas I wasn't interested.

[i_amtrunks]

Just a weekend every 5-6 weeks with 1/4 steps for candy would be great, or a week where you can get stardust or something for every multiple of 10 you get rid of potions and revives.

I wonder if there will be an update to coincide with Sun and Moon later this month or if we will get the next 100 from Johto around Christmas / New years.

Without these kinds of events the game will die, its done amazingly well considering how much niantic seem to want to kill it off.

[Zippo]

Caught the last one I needed (Hitmonchan) and once I do 5 evolutions I will have a complete New Zealand 'dex (141)

All the extra candy from the event was awesome and certainly helped get a few past the finish line.

Managed to get a second Dragonite in the wild - this time CP 45 :)

[laproblematique]

I think I've been about 4 months clean now of Pokemon Go.

Curious though, what is everybody's highest CP mons? From memory, I was seeing low 2k's holding down gyms when I stopped.

[Krayt]

Tonight on my way home I managed to get a couple of extra Pokemon out of this event too. More of these would be good - when all I kept seeing were Pidgeys and Ratattas I wasn't interested.

They just announced these will spawn less from now on....

[Zippo]

Lost my two spawn points at home ... so no reason to open the game at home anymore

[tron07]

I think I've been about 4 months clean now of Pokemon Go.

Curious though, what is everybody's highest CP mons? From memory, I was seeing low 2k's holding down gyms when I stopped.

Snorlax CP2495. Got about 10 pokemon above 2k

I can power up more as I got over 100k stardust in reserve.

[tron07]

Lost my two spawn points at home ... so no reason to open the game at home anymore

They move the gps slightly, now I cant reach the pokestop at my work.

[i_amtrunks]

Egg hatching changes and bonus stardust for catching, walking, visiting a stop etc are starting now-ish.

It may get me to open the app everyday rather than when I go for a walk, no pokestops near work or home, so only open when I am out and about and not driving.

[tron07]

With the new update, cant collect pokestops while you pass by in a bus/car unless its really slow. They seems to put in a delay in the game. Last week pokestops drops 5-8 goodies, now it back to 3-4, difficult to fill up my bag now.

[Bladestorm]

Since the last update we seem to get lots of pokemon to catch to a point where for the first time ever pokeballs are running low (not helped by the update stopping you collecting pokestops while in a car/bus - HK tram still works though).

Anyone else seeing an increase in pokemon spawning and reduction in balls?

Also farfetch'd seems to be a little easier to find at the moment (or we have a nest 2 roads over - not sure which). Previously it was nigh on impossible to find in HK as it spawned so infrequently.

[Paulbot]

Definitely a greater variety of Pokemon around since the last update in my local areas. One's I never or seldom saw are popping up more regularly. The Pokestop thing though is annoying.

[1AZRAEL1]

The pokestop thing is a bit annoyinh I found too. But I'll admit, using the Plus device makes it easier, and catching pokemon that I otherwise would not have seen at all

[Krayt]

DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hidden as common like Pidgey, Rattatta, Zubat..... but as ball locks it goes "Oh?" and you get a transform animation....


GOGOGOGOGOGO!!!!

[1AZRAEL1]

Must have come with latest update. Double experience and stardust until 30th. And tracking is back again that appears to be alot better

[i_amtrunks]

Tracking only seems to work for mon near a poke stop, I had others turn up not on my "nearby" screen that were between or not near stops.

Only caught rats and pidgeys this afternoon because a) they were the only things that appeared and b) in hope of a ditto, no luck yet.

[Bladestorm]

DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hidden as common like Pidgey, Rattatta, Zubat..... but as ball locks it goes "Oh?" and you get a transform animation....


GOGOGOGOGOGO!!!!

I got one yesterday from a zubat.
My husband got one from a magicarp. I think it can be found in more than just the 3 you listed...

[SuspectimusPrime]

What's he like in gym battles? :)

[Krayt]

I got one yesterday from a zubat.
My husband got one from a magicarp. I think it can be found in more than just the 3 you listed...

I posted when the news was new..... Magicarp hadn't been reported yet...

Now people say Pikachu, Eevee... even paras and horesea

As for Gyms.... changes into very similar version of what he faces.... unless it's a Ditto... then it's a blobfight!

[Bladestorm]

Also for anyone thinking of going to Japan, make sure to go to Shibuya in Tokyo...

https://c5.staticflickr.com/6/5828/30841081980_47ae38f7ed_z.jpg
The number of pokestops in this one location (you could get 5 active at one time if your pokeperson walked to the right spot) meant there was constant spawning of new pokemon all the time! Although the Japanese aren't as obsessed as Hk as there were only about 50 people taking advantage of it when we stopped by.

[Bladestorm]

I posted when the news was new..... Magicarp hadn't been reported yet...

Now people say Pikachu, Eevee... even paras and horesea

As for Gyms.... changes into very similar version of what he faces.... unless it's a Ditto... then it's a blobfight!

Apparently any pokemon is fair game so you literally have to catch them all for a chance to find one.
I actually thought the app had stuffed up when it happened to me - maybe an egg had clicked over while I was catching a pokemon - until the blob appeared instead of the zubat.

[Paulbot]

Had a look at the game while at work and have seen both a Venusaur and a Blastoise show up "nearby" - but can't get outside to try and catch 'em!

[Zippo]

Managed to get two Ditto's so far, both using the Plus accessory so have no idea what they were disguised as. Both low level (CP23 and 12x), so I have some more catching to do if I want to get a better one.

Got very close yesterday to running out of Pokeballs - combination of catching more due to the event and manual catches on items I would normally leave for the Plus due to Ditto (even though both Ditto catches have been via the Plus)

[1AZRAEL1]

So you can catch ditto using the device. Good to know. With the amount I catch on a daily basis using the device, I'm sure I'm bound to get one. Wife caught a high level one yesterday while we were out. Sadly at that point my phone was dead haha.

The one failing with the device I find, is the inability to select a default ball.

Edit: bahahahahaha just caught a 178 ditto from a Magikarp coming over the harbour bridge

[Zippo]

Nice!
Currently walking my Ditto as I want to power it up, but will sit and be patient until I have 50 ish candies as I could find better than my CP 123 (got a CP 10 today).. then I can go back to walking Pikachu and Dratini

[1AZRAEL1]

I nabbed a 238 one using the Plus device on the way home. You never know, you may pick up a higher level one eventually

[tron07]

Ready for the new update?

[Autocon]

New smart phone can finally par take in this activity:D

[1AZRAEL1]

Thanks to the Xmas special, I'm catching quite a few Pikachu, and having him as buddy takes only 1km to get candie

[SuspectimusPrime]

Haven't logged on since Halloween. Is there any trusty tracking apps for iOS?

We're leaving for Japan tonight, and may try catching a Farfetch'd if he isn't going to be too much trouble.

[Seraphim Prime]

Pokémon tracking within the app has actually been improved.

It will now tell you that pokemon are near certain pokestops and will give you directions to said pokestop.

Doesn't help if you want to know whether to go across the city for a particular pokemon, but it's been quite good.

[SuspectimusPrime]

Pokémon tracking within the app has actually been improved.

It will now tell you that pokemon are near certain pokestops and will give you directions to said pokestop.

Doesn't help if you want to know whether to go across the city for a particular pokemon, but it's been quite good.

That's pretty cool. I won't be running around the city to hunt for them, but if they're reasonably close by (2-3 blocks) I might go for it. I was also hoping to use a third party app as most are less of a drain on battery. :)

[1AZRAEL1]

Hatched a Magby from a 10km egg today. So seems the new pokemon are slowly appearing

[tron07]

No one is spending money, hence the new pokemon from eggs, to encourage people to pay to buy more incubators.

[Bidoofdude]

Got 2 Dittos and a Farfetch'd this week. Hit 100 caught after getting Charmander at a park as well.

[1AZRAEL1]

Just caught 5 Jynx in the one area tonight. Coulda gone back for more but just wanted to go home